Heart of the World

H. Rider Haggard

ISBN 10: 0356012646 / ISBN 13: 9780356012643

Published by Macdonald, London, 1970

About this Item

Vintage tale of adventure and romance in Mexico. Good hardcover in very good jacket; Jacket now in new removable protective cover. Blue boards with gold print on the spine, pages are clean and unmarked, but with some spots on the top edge. Macdonald hard cover with dust jacket, 1954 edition but later 1965 printing, ISBN: 9780356012643, 304 pages, illustrated by Hookway Cowles. 12mo (5" x 7.5") First published 1896. Part of a uniform edition. Adventure-Romance about a lost Mayan city in Mexico, rich in detail, ingenious and well plotted.

Seller Inventory # 102025039780356012643gr

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Heart of the World
• Publisher: Macdonald, London
• Publication Date: 1970
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0356012646
• ISBN 13: 9780356012643
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Hookway Cowles
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
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Synopsis

An extraordinarily beautiful Indian princess and a white Englishman fall in love but suffer deeply because of their feelings.Excerpt from Heart of the WorldThe circumstances under which the following pages come to be printed are somewhat curious and worthy of record. Within the last few years a certain English gentleman, whom we will call Jones, because it was not his name, chanced to be employed as the manager of a mine not far from the Usumacinto River, the upper reaches of which divide the Mexican State of Chiapas from the Republic of Guatemala.Now life at a mine in Chiapas, though doubtless it has some compensations, does not altogether fulfil a European's ideal of happiness. To begin with, the work is hard, desperately hard, and though the climate is healthy enough among the mountains, there are valleys where men may die of fever. Of sport, strictly speaking, there is none, for the forests are too dense to hunt in with any comfort, and, if they were not, the swarms of venomous insects of various degree, that haunt them, would make this particular relaxation impossible.